An automated system for 24-h monitoring of cough frequency: The Leicester cough monitor

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1472-1479

  Matos, Sergio ^a,b   Birring, Surinder S ^c   Pavord, Ian D ^c   Evans, David H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF LEICESTER NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Biomedical monitoring; Biomedical signal detection; Cough; Hidden Markov models; Respiratory system

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ANALYSIS; BIOMEDICAL MONITORING; BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL DETECTION; COUGH; STATISTICAL MODELS;

ALGORITHMS; AUDIO RECORDINGS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MICROPHONES; PATIENT MONITORING; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; SIGNAL DETECTION;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ADULT; ALGORITHM; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; AUSCULTATION; COUGH; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 34447509649     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.900811     Document Type: Article

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